On October 14-16, 2015, the 26th ICDE (International Council for Open and Distance Education) World Conference was held in Sun City, South Africa. The theme of the conference was "Growing Capacity for Sustainable Distance e-Learning Provision".
Recently, Bayi School of the Open University of China (OUC) officially launched its "Dream Building Plan for the Employment of Veterans." The plan is designed to build an employment bridge between enterprises and veterans, aiming to open up a "one-stop" employment channel to address veterans’ employment issues.
"Home of OUC students" is the OUC’s official WeChat account open for the students of the OUC. The account is designed to strengthen mutual learning communication, share life experience, witness the growth of the OUC, transfer positive energy, and promote the campus culture of the OUC. The WeChat platform selects and organizes the contents from the point of view of the students, with an effort to build a service platform that integrates in one place announcements, good personal examples, learning guidance, information enquiries, and exchange and interaction.
After two years of course construction, one of the “E-learning Educator Training” serial courses, Online Education Management, held its first session of training class from April 27 to June 14, 2015.
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter short as the State Administration) recently unveiled the 2015 list of one hundred excellent audio-visual electronic publications recommended to national youth. Handwork with Kids series published by the Multimedia Press, the Open University of China, was selected for the list.
The results of 2014 Good News Prize Selection in Chinese University Newspaper were recently unveiled. China RTVU Daily sponsored by the Open University of China (OUC) participated in the selection for the first time and achieved excellent results.
The review committee for the outstanding graduates of the Open University of China (OUC) recently reviewed the candidates for the "2014 Class of Outstanding Graduates of the OUC" and publicly announced the final list of award winners. 438 students were announced as part of the"2014 Class of Outstanding Graduates of the OUC".
On June 14th, 2015, a small symposium on the internationalization of academic journals was held at the publishing house of Distance Education in China.